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Word: quested (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Average Fan's quest for extra tickets to the Harvard-Yale game Saturday, which has ranged from offers of dance tickets to free rides in a helicopter, reached unparalleled heights yesterday at the secret, sacred practice session of the Varsity football team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Simple Story of Tickets, Ingenuity and--Frustration | 11/21/1946 | See Source »

Cambridge police were contemplating a door-to-door checkup of the Houses last night, but not in quest of a violator of parietal or municipal rules. The boys in blue have merely turned salesmen for the week, to plug the first benefit ball conducted by the geudarmerie since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Casey to Waltz With Undergraduates' Help | 11/20/1946 | See Source »

...letter in the Times of London from one William Pringle: "I am a Scotsman approaching 80 years of age and have been accustomed to have a plate of porridge daily for breakfast, and to this I attribute my good health. This morning I visited nearly a dozen shops in quest of some oatmeal, but failed to procure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: No Wonder | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

LAKE SUCESS, N. Y., Nov. 8--Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (R-Mich.) told the United Nations in a post-election statement today that it could count on the whole-hearted cooperation of the United States in the quest for peace regardless of what political regime sat in Washington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U. S. Policy Unchanged, Vandenberg Says | 11/9/1946 | See Source »

...Rutgers eleven that has played considerable good football this fall, with nothing to lose and a great deal of prestige to gain, poses an awkward stumbling block today in the path of Dick Harlow's Varsity squad, as the Crimson team goes in quest of its sixth consecutive victory at the Stadium. Kick-off time 2 o'clock...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz;, | Title: Versatile Rutgers Gridmen Endanger Crimsons's Streak | 11/2/1946 | See Source »

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